Strive to learn our children's learning style. If we can keep their interest, they will want to learn. I'm 43 years old and going back to school. I hated high school, but I'm loving community college. If we can offer a free college education to students who maintain a 3.0 average in high school, it will be cheaper than paying for prison.

It costs about $8,000 to $10,000/year/child to educate our children. A school dropout is more likely to be incarcerated than a diploma earner and less likely to be employed. It costs about $41,000/year/person to incarcerate our citizens. We should ...